Ages 10-18 · Book 4, Discernment · 4,299 places
Youth Media Programs
Making media is the fastest route to understanding what media is doing, which is why these programs punch above their size.
Built on Ellis Abel and the Two Wolves Within — “Choose what you feed within.” A character series, not a curriculum with a worldview attached.
The five sessions
- Session 1
Audit one real day of inputs, honestly, adults included
- Session 2
Read the story and name the choice point inside it
- Session 3
Learn the one check: who made this, and what do they want
- Session 4
Apply the check to something they actually watch
- Session 5
Set the family or class rule they helped write
Questions leaders ask
Is youth media programs in your area a religious program?
No. Ellis Abel is a character series. Each volume carries one named core value — this one is discernment — and the story does the teaching. There is no doctrine in it, nothing to opt out of, and it is used in public schools, libraries and secular programs as readily as anywhere else.
What ages does this work for?
Ages 10-18. The story is read aloud, so a child who cannot read yet is fully in it, and the discussion prompts are written in two bands so one adult can hold a mixed-age room.
What does a your area program need to run this?
A room, an adult, and thirty minutes. No kit, no screen, no prep beyond reading the page before the children arrive.
Can we run it as a drop-in rather than a series?
Yes. Each session stands alone, and the arc is stronger if they come back, but nothing breaks if a child only ever comes once.
The rules that make it work
This takes no side on any platform
No app is named as good or bad. That is what makes it usable in a public school, and it is also what makes it still true in three years.
Teach the question, not the rule
Rules expire when the technology changes. "Who made this and what do they want from me" works on something that has not been invented yet.
The child writes the rule
A limit imposed from above is complied with until it can be evaded. A limit a child helped write is one they can explain to a friend.
Adults do the inventory too
A grown-up listing their own real day, honestly, in front of the children, is the moment the session stops being a telling-off.
Self-talk is an input
The harshest voice most children hear is their own, and it is on the list with everything else because it works the same way.
Nobody is shamed for their list
The first honest inventory is always ugly. A room that reacts to that is a room that will only ever see edited lists afterwards.
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